On 5 Nov 2005 at 18:11, A-NO-NE Music wrote:

> Aaron Sherber / 2005/11/05 / 05:37 PM wrote:
> >You can do that. The Win2K CD allows you to format a partition as
> >NTFS.
> 
> Well, true, but the problem comes before that.  Even though my Win2KJP
> installer CD is bootable, it is still DOS, meaning it won't see the
> current NTFS partition. . ..

That really oughtn't be true, unless you've got a non-Windows boot 
manager on the machine.

> . . . The D: is FAT32 because I save C: image on D:
> (usually but not on this Thinkpad yet) for emergency restore, and when
> I need to do that I boot from DOS boot floppy.  Win2KJP installer CD
> insists on installing Win2K on D: (which is labeled as C: of course).

Again, I don't see any purpose in reformatting. Just install a fresh 
copy of Windows in a new folder, alongside the old one. If you don't 
have enough space for that, then I'd suggest that you probably don't 
have enough free space on the system partition (assuming you're 
putting the swap file on the system partition, which would be the 
only sensible place on a system where the only other available volume 
is FAT -- there's not much point in running NTFS on the system drive 
if you're storing the swap file on a non-NTFS volume).

-- 
David W. Fenton                        http://www.bway.net/~dfenton
David Fenton Associates                http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc

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